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Cannes Winners Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar Reunite for HAF Project ‘The Witness’

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Naman Ramachandran The writing team of Iran’s Jafar Panahi and Nader Saeivar, who won best screenplay at Cannes for “3 Faces” (2018) directed by Panahi, have reunited for “The Witness.” To be directed by Saeivar, the project has been selected for the 21st Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), the project market that operates concurrently with FilMart (March 13-16).

Saeivar made his feature debut with “The Alien” (2020), which was a Berlinale selection and won prizes at the Beijing, Hong Kong, Duhok, Taormina and International Crime and Punishment film festivals.

Saeivar’s sophomore feature, “No End,” debuted at Busan in 2022 and won him best director at Goa and a brace of awards at Vesoul recently. “The Witness” follows a widowed retired teacher who sees the murder of her friend.

When the police refuse to investigate the murder because of the suspect’s status as an important government figure, the witness decides to publicize everything she knows.

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